Word: steffie
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STEFFI GRAF No love lost in a singles match against her toughest opponent: German tax collectors...
RETURNING. MONICA SELES, 21, ex-tennis star; from a two-year hiatus following a knifing by a crazed Steffi Graf fan. Seles' comeback will begin with an exhibition against Martina Navratilova next month in Paris...
...expectations. Just an opportunity to bask one more time in the genteel applause of the faithful at Centre Court. After all, Martina is 37, and the serve no longer sizzles. Wimbledon and its slippery green amalgam of fescue and ryegrass are now the domain of five-time champion Steffi Graf, 25. It's a surface for the young and the restless. On grass either you are quick or you are quickly dismissed...
...sport to train the way men do. Yet this stubborn competitor was always fragile, often on the edge of a "Martina meltdown." No one wins everything, but it seemed Navratilova should. Her fans still agonize over the 1989 U.S. Open, when she was two games away from beating Steffi Graf in straight sets, or the 1981 U.S. Open, which she lost to Tracy Austin in two tie breakers after winning the first set 6-1. She blames mostly her shotmaking, not her nerves. "If I had had a backhand down the line instead of only crosscourt," she says, "I would...
...upset shook men's tennis today, as the world's No. 2 player, Michael Stich, was soundly defeated by Bryan Shelton, who is ranked No. 120. This victory marked the second time in as many days that an outranked American has ousted a favored German, after Lori McNeil beat Steffi Graf yesterday in the first round. Taking advantage of the unpredictable grass courts and his opponent's bad temper, Shelton consistently outplayed and outclassed Stich. Shelton says that he was inspired by his fellow Yank's earlier win, and hopes that their achievements as African-American tennis players will encourage...